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Some two dozen first-graders through young adults in Diana Rodgers’ All About Irish dance school are not from Ireland — they’re from this area — but they can show contest judges they know all about Irish dancing.

Nicholas Skaggs is like many other teenagers; he likes tinkering with cars and bikes. His own custom bicycle, however, is a bit more of eye catcher.

Nicholas’ father, Jerry Skaggs, found the 1953 Schwinn bicycle at a pawn shop and gave it to his son as a birthday present. A little custom paint and a lot of chrome later, and “Blue Eye’s Dream” has already earned its owner 10 trophies and an exotic car show award.

“It wasn’t nothing like it is now,” Skaggs said about his son’s bike.

Skaggs said the bike and all its additions are now worth about $3,000. Nicholas said the bike is for show only, and he doesn’t ride it.

The customer low-rider bike would be difficult to ride anyway, he said, because the pedals drag the ground.

I was wondering where a person that’s on regular Social Security that’s willing to work, where would they be able to go to get employment? I’m wanting to find a job to get off of Social Security. Does anybody have any ideas of who I can contact to go back to work and get off government assistance?

Thursday (May 1) marked five years since President Bush landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, declaring, under the banner “Mission Accomplished”: “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” On that day, the toll of American dead in Iraq stood at 140. Today, the count exceeds 4,000. That moment, the president so full of himself, has become representative of a White House arrogant, unknowing and ill-prepared.

Shawnee Little Olympic Gold Track Shoe recipients were honored at the weekly Kiwanis luncheon.

Some two dozen first-graders through young adults in Diana Rodgers’ All About Irish dance school are not from Ireland — they’re from this area — but they can show contest judges they know all about Irish dancing.

A man who allegedly shot a veteran police officer then held authorities at bay for more than 10 hours walked out of a northeast Oklahoma City residence Thursday evening and surrendered.

They’re trapped in loans they can’t afford and saddled with more debt than their homes are worth.
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners ensnared in a double-whammy of subprime mortgage rate resets and plummeting house values could be helped under a plan passed by the House Thursday.
But first, Democrats have to counter objections from President Bush and congressional Republicans, who say more prudent homebuyers and renters shouldn’t be called upon to bail out borrowers who gambled on ever-rising housing prices and lost.